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Oral Sex As A Cancer Cause
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escargot1 said:
I'm feeling the pain for the rest of you who might be getting (or giving) some
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Just another example of anything that's fun being bad for you
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escargot1 said:
No worries - I can do empathy if I try really really hard*
* and its connected to nookie
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I think this falls under the catgeory of
"Don't eat something you aren't prepared to kill*"
Or was that another thread?
* If the bastard gives you a STD
"Don't eat something you aren't prepared to kill*"
Or was that another thread?
* If the bastard gives you a STD
WRT the original post, one wonders whether those involved in the porn business have a history of mouth cancer. Surely that would be one vocation where such a hazard would manifest as a higher probablility of mouth cancer?
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*fidgets nervously*
Umm
Err
Well
*coughs*
Surely it'd be deep throat cancer?
Not that I watch such filthy, vile things like porn and I'm outraged at the scandalous implication that I have nothing better to do than sit around watching surgically enhanced blondes like Jenna Jameson and Jill Kelly cavorting naked through films like Flashpoint and Jenna's Revenge.
You'll be hearing from my lawyers about this. Either Michael Jackson's, OJ Simpsons or if I can't get them Ambulancechasingparasites4U.
Umm
Err
Well
*coughs*
Surely it'd be deep throat cancer?
Not that I watch such filthy, vile things like porn and I'm outraged at the scandalous implication that I have nothing better to do than sit around watching surgically enhanced blondes like Jenna Jameson and Jill Kelly cavorting naked through films like Flashpoint and Jenna's Revenge.
You'll be hearing from my lawyers about this. Either Michael Jackson's, OJ Simpsons or if I can't get them Ambulancechasingparasites4U.
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What about when the women get vitamins from giving men oral? 
Only says can be but has anyone said it was the cause of their mouth cancer yet?
Read an article ages ago that it's supposed to be good for you. 8)
Only says can be but has anyone said it was the cause of their mouth cancer yet?
Read an article ages ago that it's supposed to be good for you. 8)
escargot1 said:Re the porn actors getting oral cancer:
Two words explain their apparent immunity -
money shot.
Well, the orginal article doesn't mention anything about the virus being spread by semen (i.e. it just mentions fellatio and cunnilingus), so I guess your theory doesn't fit
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escargot1 said:Well, that's put me in my place.
No more oral sex jokes for me.
Awww no Oral sex jokes! :cry:
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Oral sex can cause throat cancer
22:00 09 May 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Roxanne Khamsi
People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, a new study suggests.
The researchers believe this is because oral sex may transmit human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus implicated in the majority of cervical cancers.
The new findings should encourage people to consistently use condoms during oral sex as this could protect against HPV, the team says. Other experts say that the results provide more reason for men to receive the new HPV vaccine.
Maura Gillison at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, US, and colleagues collected blood and saliva samples from the throats of 100 patients diagnosed with cancers of the tonsils or back of the throat. The scientists also took samples from 200 healthy people for comparison.
By combining the blood and saliva samples with antibody molecules, Gillison's team could tell whether a person had ever had an HPV infection.
Cancer traps
All of the study participants provided information about their sexual history, including the number of people with whom they had engaged in oral sex.
After controlling for other risk factors for throat cancer, such as drinking and smoking, the analysis revealed that people who had prior infection with HPV were 32 times as likely to have this cancer as those with no evidence of ever having the virus. And those who tested positive for a particularly aggressive strain of the virus, called HPV-16, were 58 times more likely to have throat cancer.
By comparison, either smoking or drinking increases the risk of such cancer by about threefold.
The throat cancers analysed in the new study mostly started in the "crypts" of the throat – the grooves at the base of the tonsils. This might be because the tonsil grooves trap infectious particles, suggests Mark Stoler of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US, who was not involved in the study.
High risk levels
The study also revealed a link between oral sex and throat cancer caused by HPV. People who had one to five oral-sex partners in their lifetime had approximately a doubled risk of throat cancer compared with those who never engaged in this activity - and those with more than five oral-sex partners had a 250% increased risk.
There was an even stronger link between oral sex and throat cancers clearly caused by HPV-16 (those tumours that tested positive for the strain). People with more than five oral sex partners had a 750% increased risk of these HPV-16-caused cancers.
"This study is important because it is putting all of the pieces together," says Gillison. "We need to add oral HPV infection to the list of risks for oral cancer," she adds.
Virus vaccine
A vaccine against several of the most aggressive strains of HPV linked to cervical cancer received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006. However the plan to vaccinate adolescent girls with this vaccine developed by Merck, called Gardasil, has received some criticism.
There have been no studies investigating whether the vaccine can also protect against throat cancer, but the new evidence linking HPV to throat cancer could lead to broader vaccination with Gardasil. "We will see a push for vaccination in men," says Stoler, who has been involved in the development of the vaccine.
Tonsil and throat cancers affect about two in every 100,000 adults in the US. The new results could promote the development of spit tests for HPV infection to help identify people at high risk for these cancers, researchers say.
Journal reference: New England Journal of Medicine (vol 356, p 1944)
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Oral sex linked to mouth cancer
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4712
25 February 2004
22:00 09 May 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Roxanne Khamsi
People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, a new study suggests.
The researchers believe this is because oral sex may transmit human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus implicated in the majority of cervical cancers.
The new findings should encourage people to consistently use condoms during oral sex as this could protect against HPV, the team says. Other experts say that the results provide more reason for men to receive the new HPV vaccine.
Maura Gillison at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, US, and colleagues collected blood and saliva samples from the throats of 100 patients diagnosed with cancers of the tonsils or back of the throat. The scientists also took samples from 200 healthy people for comparison.
By combining the blood and saliva samples with antibody molecules, Gillison's team could tell whether a person had ever had an HPV infection.
Cancer traps
All of the study participants provided information about their sexual history, including the number of people with whom they had engaged in oral sex.
After controlling for other risk factors for throat cancer, such as drinking and smoking, the analysis revealed that people who had prior infection with HPV were 32 times as likely to have this cancer as those with no evidence of ever having the virus. And those who tested positive for a particularly aggressive strain of the virus, called HPV-16, were 58 times more likely to have throat cancer.
By comparison, either smoking or drinking increases the risk of such cancer by about threefold.
The throat cancers analysed in the new study mostly started in the "crypts" of the throat – the grooves at the base of the tonsils. This might be because the tonsil grooves trap infectious particles, suggests Mark Stoler of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US, who was not involved in the study.
High risk levels
The study also revealed a link between oral sex and throat cancer caused by HPV. People who had one to five oral-sex partners in their lifetime had approximately a doubled risk of throat cancer compared with those who never engaged in this activity - and those with more than five oral-sex partners had a 250% increased risk.
There was an even stronger link between oral sex and throat cancers clearly caused by HPV-16 (those tumours that tested positive for the strain). People with more than five oral sex partners had a 750% increased risk of these HPV-16-caused cancers.
"This study is important because it is putting all of the pieces together," says Gillison. "We need to add oral HPV infection to the list of risks for oral cancer," she adds.
Virus vaccine
A vaccine against several of the most aggressive strains of HPV linked to cervical cancer received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006. However the plan to vaccinate adolescent girls with this vaccine developed by Merck, called Gardasil, has received some criticism.
There have been no studies investigating whether the vaccine can also protect against throat cancer, but the new evidence linking HPV to throat cancer could lead to broader vaccination with Gardasil. "We will see a push for vaccination in men," says Stoler, who has been involved in the development of the vaccine.
Tonsil and throat cancers affect about two in every 100,000 adults in the US. The new results could promote the development of spit tests for HPV infection to help identify people at high risk for these cancers, researchers say.
Journal reference: New England Journal of Medicine (vol 356, p 1944)
Related Articles
Cervical cancer virus is common in the US
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11265
27 February 2007
Cervical cancer vaccine should also be given to men
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... 825215.400
15 October 2005
Oral sex linked to mouth cancer
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4712
25 February 2004
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Without wishing to appear indelicate, if this is the case, why hasn't the world population been decimated by throat cancer?
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maureenmac1 said:
Again, without wishing to appear presumptious, surely it's not a spit test but a swallow-o-meter that's required.